biography
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| lived:
| (1624–91)
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| biography:
| Founder of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), born in Fenny Drayton, Leicestershire, C England, UK. Apprenticed to a Nottingham shoemaker, he felt at 19 a divine call to leave his friends, and Bible in hand he wandered about the country, on a small income. The ‘inner light’ was the central idea of his teaching, and he argued against the formalism of the established Church, and all social conventions. His life is a record of insults, persecutions, imprisonments, and missionary travel to several parts of the world. As a writer he is remembered by his Journal (posthumously published), which records the birth of the Quaker movement. |
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